Exempt Washington State from Daylight Savings

The Issue

Daylight savings time has minimal impact on energy savings, and workplace accidents increase due to tired workers.  The detriment to sleep cycles and difficulty for people adjusting to the change causes more loss in worker productivity than the minimal benefit it may provide. Many studies indicate there is a loss of worker productivity and an increase in the number of traffic and work related accidents following the time change necessitated by daylight savings.  People with natural sleep cycles may have a hard time adjusting for several weeks.  Any benefit previously afforded by energy savings is offset by the cost in accidents and productivity loss. This petition is to encourage Washington State to adopt policies similar to Arizona, counties in Indiana, and others considering this such as Michigan to eliminate daylight savings time.

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The Issue

Daylight savings time has minimal impact on energy savings, and workplace accidents increase due to tired workers.  The detriment to sleep cycles and difficulty for people adjusting to the change causes more loss in worker productivity than the minimal benefit it may provide. Many studies indicate there is a loss of worker productivity and an increase in the number of traffic and work related accidents following the time change necessitated by daylight savings.  People with natural sleep cycles may have a hard time adjusting for several weeks.  Any benefit previously afforded by energy savings is offset by the cost in accidents and productivity loss. This petition is to encourage Washington State to adopt policies similar to Arizona, counties in Indiana, and others considering this such as Michigan to eliminate daylight savings time.

The Decision Makers

Former State House of Representatives
2 Members
Cindy Ryu
Former State House of Representatives - Washington-32A
Ruth Kagi
Former State House of Representatives - Washington-32B
Former State Senate
9 Members
Maralyn Chase
Former State Senate - Washington-32
James Hargrove
Former State Senate - Washington-24
Christine Rolfes
Former State Senate - Washington-23
Washington State Senate
4 Members
Bob Hasegawa
Washington State Senate - District 11
Judy Warnick
Washington State Senate - District 13
Jamie Pedersen
Washington State Senate - District 43
Ann Rivers
Former Washington State Senate - District 18

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Petition created on March 13, 2015